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OK, if Da Bears motivation was to do the 1st round pick they're abandoning a solid by giving him input into his landing spot, I approve their actions. It's a business, but not a 100% heartless one

No, not at all. But for the little bitty bit they got for him, I think they could have just kept him on the roster to see what happens and whether someone would make them a better offer.

Some people on this board who are known to have some inside sources in the Bills posted this. I'll try to find the posts. But they aren't "LAMP"ers and it wasn't brought up in a gossipy way, so I'm inclined to give it some credibility.

If the Steelers don't make big investments in their offensive line, Russ Wilson will be too busy running for his life to develop anyone. Pickett, a 2022 1st round Pick #20 and a 4th for a 3rd round pick and 2 7th round picks Fields, a 2021 1st round Pick #11 for a 6th round pick that could become a 4th if he plays Kinda looks like the Steelers sold high and bought low, but Wow! QBs don't get much time to develop in this day and age. I think if I were a Bears fan, I'd be kind of pissed.

The premise of your rant is fundamentally mistaken. Since joining the Bills, Diggs targets have been 2020 10 T/gm 2021 9.6 T/gm 2022 9.6 T/gm 2023 9.4 T/gm I don't think decreasing his targets by 0.2 per game is gonna impact his career longevity too much. That comes to 3.4 fewer targets per season.

I don't think anyone believes we'll be keeping Diggs for the length of his current contract. This year, it is "cheaper to keep him". Next year, 2025, we save $$ by cutting him. 2026, we save substantial money by cutting him How decent what we can get for him is, depends upon his performance this upcoming season. It was a couple years ago (22?) but as linked above, when Dallas traded Amari Cooper they got a 5th.

They would get him cheaper, in the sense that they would only be paying his salary, workout, and per-game roster bonuses so $19M. That still makes him like the 17th paid WR, although the trade partner could convert some of it to restructure bonuses.

I think that's a little misleading on the part of Overthecap. We don't get to amortize his cap hits over 5 years just because we trade him after June 1 this season. The rest of the cap hits would fall in 2025. Cooper had kind of a weird 5 year, $100M contract - or at least, being used to looking at Beane's contracts, it looked that way to me. It was like $10k of signing bonus and the rest was all salary.

I don't think so Details here https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-trade-amari-cooper-cleveland-browns#gid=ci029bfaa32000272a&pid=tank-amari For the Cowboys, it was a swap: Cooper and a 6th, for a 5th and a 6th back. Note that essentially, the #10 WR last season in receiving yards, was traded to Cleveland for a 5th round pick. Cooper was due $20M salary that guaranteed just before the Cowboys traded him, and Cleveland promptly restructured his salary into amortizable bonus, but the money Dallas had sunk into bonuses, stayed with Dallas

No, if we trade him now, all of the amortized bonuses get added up and applied to this seasons cap But then in future years, all his cap costs are gone Apologies if I misunderstand what you're asking

I took that as meaning "I almost had it, I was THIS close" not "you were off, buddy". OK, so obviously at best, it's something with multiple reasonable interpretations by us fans, so why is it a good basis for being down on the guy? I don't think it was the tweets

"Barefoot in Buffalo" sounds like the name of a RomCom flick Seriously, in the days when everyone went barefoot, the winter sidewalks weren't covered with snow melting compound. My dog could care less about running around in snow. Somehow the blood flow in her pads adjust. But snow melting compound is Evil. It leads to puddles of liquid that are below freezing and can damage her paws, and the chemicals themselves can dry the skin and cause cracking. We either don't walk her, or put booties on her, before she walks anywhere that might have had snow melt applied to it. And when we don't think there's snow melt to worry about, we apply Musher's Secret to partially protect. Snowmelt is Bad, Mack, Don't Do It.

? Are you talking about the pass that got fumbled in the Steelers game and Kincaid batted it out of bounds? Or the deep bomb he should have had? 'Cuz I didn't see a reaction that made it seem like he thought it was off.

When did he do that? He said he wishes he had it back, 100% accountable.

That may be, but they "kicked some can down the road" in Dec of 22 after he was already injured, by converting some 2022 salary to signing bonus. But I agree, they could have done more and refrained, likely from concern about his ACL recovery. Show me a time when the Patriots or Chiefs moved on from a player who cost them massive dead cap, more dead cap to move on than to keep him.

I want a week in Costa Rica. And a pony.

Except, he did fall off a bit last season, specifically the 2nd half of last season. I don't think it necessarily means he fell off a "performance cliff" or something, I think he may have had some painful and nagging injury like an oblique or something which slowed him just enough to make a difference. But he's still one of the top receivers in the league, top-15 for yards, top-10 for pretty much anything else. Yes. Yes, he is.

Pretty sure the social media reports are Making ***** Up(tm) as I recognize that profile pic as one he has had for literally, several years. Like I think, since he toasted a guy badly for a TD in 2020 and Josh Allen was giving him an expensive watch engraved "Slime" for Christmas, years. It's for sure not recent, or even this past season

What's your schedule for cleaning your belly button lint?

My thing with McKenzie is, he brought a lot of energy to the locker room and the team reportedly, but I think it sometimes came at the expense of buckling down, watching film, and being prepared. No one was ever voting him in as Team Captain. Hollins was apparently been voted a team captain on 3 of the 4 NFL teams he's played for - Eagles, Dolphins, and Raiders (for whom he only played 1 year). That's amazing. So he's a crazy funny guy, yes, but there's got to be a lot more to him.

I would think it could be the start of a Beautiful Friendship. You go out to a Prix Fixe dinner, say, where the menu includes soup and asparagus. You get his soup, and he gets your asparagus, which he can pick up in his hands and munch.

So I'm pretty sure this guy is a random troll posing as a Miami Herald reporter. -When I ask Google "who covers the Miami Dolphins for the Miami Herald?" the name I get is Daniel Oyefusi. -When I google "Daniel Oyefusi", I get a bunch of Miami Herald articles with his name on the byline. -When I google "John Mark" or "John C Mark" , I don't get any hits from Miami Herald articles. -If you click on the link in his profile, you get taken to the Miami Herald Dolphins coverage - with bylines from Daniel Oyefusi. -And last but not least, google reverse image search of the photo brings up Mark Kelly, WKRN News 2 reporter for Tennessee. Assessment: Troll Last but not least, genuine insiders like Adam Schefter and Ian Rapoport repeatedly say that the Bills are the hardest team to get news out of, that time after time when the Bills do make a move, there isn't a hint, it Just Happens. So the chances of Beane saying something to some rando on twitter are like 0.00001% Beane says that when there's news about the Bills being interested in a player or signing a player or trading a pick, a lot of time it's just a phone call which is part of routine GM 'due diligence', "hey, what would it take to get a deal done for your 2nd round pick?" and depending on the answer that may be the extent of their interest. Don't help the Trolls Propagate.

It seems like you're considering his twitter pic showing him waving good-bye in a Bills uni to be some sort of provocation (like he's waving goodbye to the Bills?) But when he put it there, it was just celebrating a successful play, waving good-bye to the DBs chasing him. The line between rightful pride in ability and "juvenile" is always going to be thin I guess. I do agree with you that it's a huge gamble to count on a rookie and Samuels as our two top WR and agree with you that if Diggs would shut up and lock in, it would be better for the Bills, AND for him in the long run.

Right on all counts. The real question is always, how good was the drafting team's scouting of the position? The Bills do seem to have a knack for being able to identify WR who can play from the later rounds. The question is, do they have the ability to identify the guys who can really play from the top rounds?

The non exclusive franchise tag is a "poison pill" for the trade partner though: "If the organization chooses not to offer an equal (or greater) contract and the player transfers to the other team, they [meaning the original team] are entitled to two first-round draft picks from the franchise acquiring the player." So it's basically forcing a team that's interested in signing him to trade him for 2 1st round picks. Like "Dang, you good, you ain't THAT good!" He's not likely to get an offer sheet from other teams for that.